<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en" data-content_root="../">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

  <title>CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC &mdash; CMake 4.1.1 Documentation</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../_static/pygments.css?v=a2c47e09" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../_static/cmake.css?v=4d06bd55" />
    
    <script src="../_static/documentation_options.js?v=e6a937a4"></script>
    <script src="../_static/doctools.js?v=9bcbadda"></script>
    <script src="../_static/sphinx_highlight.js?v=dc90522c"></script>
    
    <link rel="icon" href="../_static/cmake-favicon.ico"/>
    <link rel="index" title="Index" href="../genindex.html" />
    <link rel="search" title="Search" href="../search.html" />
    <link rel="next" title="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC" href="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC.html" />
    <link rel="prev" title="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX" href="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX.html" />
 

  </head><body>
    <input id="sidebar-check" type="checkbox" />
    <label id="sidebar-overlay" for="sidebar-check"></label>



    <div class="related relbar1" role="navigation" aria-label="Related">
      <h3>Navigation</h3>
      <ul>
        <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
          <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
             accesskey="I">index</a></li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC.html" title="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC"
             accesskey="N">next</a> |</li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX.html" title="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX"
             accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li>
  <li>
    <label class="sidebar-toggle" for="sidebar-check"></label>
  </li>
  <li class="rootlink">
    <img src="../_static/cmake-logo-16.png" width="16" height="16" alt=""/>
    <a href="https://cmake.org/">CMake 4.1.1</a>
    <span class="reldelim1"> &#187;</span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../index.html">Documentation</a> &#187;
  </li>

          <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../manual/cmake-variables.7.html" accesskey="U">cmake-variables(7)</a> &#187;</li>
        <li class="nav-item nav-item-this"><a href="">CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC</a></li> 
      </ul>
    </div>  

    <div class="document">
      <div class="documentwrapper">
        <div class="bodywrapper">
          <div class="body" role="main">
            
  <section id="cmake-link-search-end-static">
<span id="variable:CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC"></span><h1>CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC<a class="headerlink" href="#cmake-link-search-end-static" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.4.</span></p>
</div>
<p>End a link line such that static system libraries are used.</p>
<p>Some linkers support switches such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-Bstatic</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-Bdynamic</span></code> to
determine whether to use static or shared libraries for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-lXXX</span></code> options.
CMake uses these options to set the link type for libraries whose full
paths are not known or (in some cases) are in implicit link
directories for the platform.  By default CMake adds an option at the
end of the library list (if necessary) to set the linker search type
back to its starting type.  This property switches the final linker
search type to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-Bstatic</span></code> regardless of how it started.</p>
<p>This variable is used to initialize the target property
<span class="target" id="index-0-prop_tgt:LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../prop_tgt/LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC.html#prop_tgt:LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC" title="LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-prop_tgt docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC</span></code></a> for all targets. If set, its
value is also used by the <span class="target" id="index-0-command:try_compile"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/try_compile.html#command:try_compile" title="try_compile"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">try_compile()</span></code></a> command.</p>
<p>See also <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC"></span><a class="reference internal" href="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC.html#variable:CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC" title="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC</span></code></a>.</p>
</section>


            <div class="clearer"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="Main">
        <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper">
  <div>
    <h4>Previous topic</h4>
    <p class="topless"><a href="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX.html"
                          title="previous chapter">CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX</a></p>
  </div>
  <div>
    <h4>Next topic</h4>
    <p class="topless"><a href="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC.html"
                          title="next chapter">CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC</a></p>
  </div>
  <div role="note" aria-label="source link">
    <h3>This Page</h3>
    <ul class="this-page-menu">
      <li><a href="../_sources/variable/CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC.rst.txt"
            rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li>
    </ul>
   </div>
<search id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search">
  <h3 id="searchlabel">Quick search</h3>
    <div class="searchformwrapper">
    <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get">
      <input type="text" name="q" aria-labelledby="searchlabel" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false"/>
      <input type="submit" value="Go" />
    </form>
    </div>
</search>
<script>document.getElementById('searchbox').style.display = "block"</script>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="clearer"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="Related">
      <h3>Navigation</h3>
      <ul>
        <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px">
          <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index"
             >index</a></li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC.html" title="CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_START_STATIC"
             >next</a> |</li>
        <li class="right" >
          <a href="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX.html" title="CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_SUFFIX"
             >previous</a> |</li>
  <li>
    <label class="sidebar-toggle" for="sidebar-check"></label>
  </li>
  <li class="rootlink">
    <img src="../_static/cmake-logo-16.png" width="16" height="16" alt=""/>
    <a href="https://cmake.org/">CMake 4.1.1</a>
    <span class="reldelim1"> &#187;</span>
  </li>
  <li>
    <a href="../index.html">Documentation</a> &#187;
  </li>

          <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../manual/cmake-variables.7.html" >cmake-variables(7)</a> &#187;</li>
        <li class="nav-item nav-item-this"><a href="">CMAKE_LINK_SEARCH_END_STATIC</a></li> 
      </ul>
    </div>

    <div class="footer" role="contentinfo">
    &#169; Copyright 2000-2025 Kitware, Inc. and Contributors.
      Created using <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 8.1.3.
    </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
  "use strict";
  const hide = () => document.getElementById("sidebar-check").checked = false;
  addEventListener("keydown", e => (e.key === "Escape") && hide());
  addEventListener("click", e => (e.target.tagName === "A") && hide());
  addEventListener("hashchange", hide)
})();
</script>
  </body>
</html>